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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Dominica	Canada	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	70	30,510	387
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	71	30,796	390
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	71	31,132	393
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	72	31,473	396
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	72	31,758	398
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	72	32,055	401
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	72	32,360	404
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	72	32,688	405
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	72	33,007	406
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	73	33,367	409
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	73	33,750	412
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	73	34,127	414
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	73	34,463	416
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	73	34,839	420
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	73	35,209	426
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	73	35,565	435
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	74	35,831	445
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	74	36,239	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	74	36,677	468
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	74	37,198	485
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	75	37,736	504
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	75	38,174	516
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	76	38,383	518
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	76	38,685	530

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

No separate list is published for Dominica, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.